I’ve given my take the latest Palin controversy here and here, and outside of that I’m done. I make it a rule not put too much faith in “unnamed sources” (especially when one of the people rumoured to be an “unnamed source” publicly says it’s all a bunch of jive), and if you want to believe things that the Governor of Alaska who trades regularly with Canada doesn’t know what NAFTA is…whatever.
The question now is what does Sarah Palin do next? To answer that I look to the great philosopher Keigergard, or maybe it was Glenn Frey, who simply said, “Take it Easy.”
She’s scheduled to speak in February at the big Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Washington D.C. Until then…I wouldn’t do a damn thing. Relax. Welcome your grandchild into the world. Enjoy Christmas. Enjoy the New Year. Get back to being Governor. There’s really no need to think aboot 2012…especially when there’s still 2010 to worry aboot.
Then, after a few months rest, and after a speech at CPAC that you know is going to bring the house down, it’s all a matter of introducing people to Sarah Palin. I say “introduce” as opposed to “re-introduce” because the woman that America has met over the past two months wasn’t Sarah Palin as much as it was John McCain’s running mate. The job of the V.P. is to do nothing else but advocate for the Presidential candidate, essentially just throw out chunks of red meat to the crowds and stand behind McCain saying, “Yeah, what he said.” Palin has her own narrative yet to tell, and to stand on her own record.
An example of this would be the economy. All this talk aboot how bad the economy is…Sarah Palin was the only one running this year that had any economic background whatsoever. As Governor of Alaska she oversees 20,000+ employees and an operating budget of $11 Billion, which $11 Billion more than the operating budgets Obama, Biden, and McCain ran combined. Warren Buffet, life long Dem and a guy who knows a thing or two aboot making money, is a huge fan of hers from their business dealings. Prior to joining the McCain ticket she was interviewed on the business channels all the time, so while MSNBC was calling her an idiot and a Jesus freak, CNBC was saying what a great pick she was. There were a lot of serious people who saw something special prior to September 1st. The rest of the country needs to meet that Sarah Palin.
Boning up on issues I’m not that concerned aboot. When you have cats like Randy Scheunemann (foreign policy), Larry Kudlow (economic policy), and if he’s not planning a run himself, Newt Gingrich (domestic policy) all as supporters, there’s nothing that can’t be learned. And as for energy policy which she’s an expert at herself, I seem to recall a certain President-Elect saying that energy independence was going to be a top priority of his first year in office.
The best part is that the people she has to make the case to, the moderates and independents, stopped paying attention Wednesday morning. The right is in the love. The left will hate her no matter what. The middle she needs to impress has gone back to fantasy football. By the time September of 2012 rolls around, they’ll see an entirely different candidate.
And who’s to say she’s even going to run in 2012. She’s only forty-four years old. If she finishes a second term as Governor she’ll still only be fifty, younger than most people who run for President. There’s even the chance of Senator, especially if/when current Senator Ted Stevens is expelled from his seat. The main reason everyone’s talking aboot 2012 is because, now that 2008 is over, what else are we going to talk aboot?
Sarah Palin has a bright future a head of her, and while it might not be in the next four years, I can’t imagine it not being in national politics. There was something else going out there besides “appealing to the base,” and even if you believe that the 20,000+ crowds she was drawing were all die-hard Republicans, anyone who doesn’t think she can build off of that simply wasn’t paying attention.
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Follow-up comment rss or Leave a TrackbackDoes she have the capacity to gain any semblance of credibility as a national political figure rather than as a national joke? Anyone who has reached the age of 44 without knowing that Africa is a continent not a country cannot seriously to be considered as fit to be elevated into national office. I hope that we have heard the last of this tiresome and ignorant woman.
In answer to post by Paddy Briggs. Please wake up and STOP listening to the msn they are the mst biased people ever and also stop listening to unfounded rumors about hers smarts. You don’t run a state as large as Alaska with 20k employees and a 11 BILLION dollar budget and be as dumb as the MSn wants you to believe.
Palin stated she is Christian so she understands the Bible when it states you reap what you sow. She tried to tear Obama down with lies during the campaign and ruin his intregrity so now that the campaign is over she is experiencing the same things she did to Obama by her own party so you do reap what you sow. It amazing what hungriness for power will make a person do.
The worst things about Sarah Palin are the least examined by the mainstream media.
Her and her husband’s associations with the anti-American Alaskan Seperatist Party are deeply troubling. It shows Palin to be another politician who wants to go to Washington for the express purpose of subverting our government from within. I’m sick of these sickos!
Haven’t we had enough of these right wing haters, who want to destroy everything that patriots have built in America for the past 250 years??
She is another dangerous, divisive, conceited and opportunistic politician — who is in it for herself only.
Her attacks on Barack reveal her hatefulness and ignorance. Now the Secret Service is reporting that her rally rants caused a spike in death plots against Barack. Her ignorance of the reality of murderous white supremacists in America is dangerous. These supremacists are hyper aggressive, hyper-paranoid and hyper-hateful — and worst of all, they willing to act out their demented rage.
We do not need her kind in government. She has no place in civil society.
Congratulations to Sarah Palin. She went from Beauty Queen to Mayor to Governor to Vice Presidential nominee all on her own strengths and merits. She has a very bright future in US politics. Face it. She got a lot closer to the White House then Hilary or Geraldine Ferraro and her star is just starting to rise. The USA and the human race needs more people like her.
Republican bosses to blame for Palin’s flop
U.S. PRESIDENTIAL RACE: The Republican vice-presidential candidate may have another way to get to Washington
By LISA VAN DUSEN
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Politics can produce some pretty nasty break-ups, but the ballad of John McCain and Sarah Palin is like something you’d hear on the jukebox at the Mug Shot Saloon in Wasilla at closing time.
He was a white-haired, silver-tongued former flyboy from Washington who strung her along with a lot of big talk about Neiman Marcus, moving sidewalks and unspecified Senate in-charginess.
She was a former Miss Congeniality who’d parlayed a head for up-dos and a knack for self-promotion into the executive mansion of the northernmost state of the union through sheer pluck and a breathtaking lack of self-doubt.
Seems like just yesterday they were mavericking their way across pro- America, with trusty Joe the Plumber in tow, spreading the word about not spreading the wealth.
Now, just weeks later, his friends are blaming her for running up the bills and going rogue and being a whack job; her friends are blaming his friends for caring too much about briefing and geography and for thwarting her presidential ambitions in favour of trying to win this election.
What Sarah Palin may be pondering, beyond the arguable reality of her own roguish whack-jobness and the vastness of Africa, is whether she should have said no.
When those fancy men in their sharp suits came a-calling about how she was on the short list to be John McCain’s lovely and talented assistant, she should have heard the whirr of that buzz saw just off stage right.
She should have known that, if it all went south, the very things they’d be barking out to the world about her would end up being spun into something else altogether: Maverick would become rogue, hockey mom would become hillbilly, gumption would become whack job.
Compared with the things the McCain camp has said about Sarah Palin in the past three weeks, some of the things the rest of us said when Sarah Palin was wheeled out about why they chose her seem downright flattering. The McCain campaign assured everyone that they knew better and that the naysayers should stop being so rude, disrespectful and negative and take their word for it.
A month ago, they were saying she was more than qualified to be president of the United States and leader of the free world and now they’re saying she’s a greedy, stupid, shallow diva. Which is a frighteningly belated way of saying, “It’s a good thing we didn’t win,” and that only confirms all the most unsettling predictions people made about the potential consequences of this pick.
Palin might have known better for her own sake than to sign up for a kamikaze scapegoat mission, but expecting her to just say no in the face of such an offer is like expecting a lottery winner to shrug and say, “Nah, never mind.”
From the moment she accepted, everything she did that had to do with her family, her record, her ability to make it through a network interview or even her spending habits was the campaign’s responsibility because these were the things they chose to overlook.
Presidential campaigns can’t be responsible for every stupid mistake made on their behalf and they can’t even be responsible for every gaffe or unguarded aside of a running mate. But to not vet Palin and then hang her for things that would have turned up in the vetting or that should have been headed off by aides — like the fake Nicolas Sarkozy interview with Mont-real’s CKOI, which has also pranked such other hillbillies as the real Sarkozy and Bill Gates — seems wildly self-serving.
Chances are, this stuff will gain her more sympathy than scorn among her fans in the Republican base, and it may also rally Alaskans, who could be electing a new senator to replace Republican Ted Stevens, who was convicted of corruption too late to remove his name from the Nov. 4 ballot and whose votes are still being counted.
If Stevens is declared the winner in that race and keeps his seat, but his conviction is upheld on appeal, Majority Leader Harry Reid has warned he’ll be expelled from the Senate.
That would create an opening for Palin to get to Washington on her own steam and take a seat in the Senate alongside John McCain. That could be a reunion worthy of a whole ‘nother song.
Sarah Palin needs to take care of her own backyard, the one in Anchorage, Alaska. I saw a documentary about Anchorage on the illegal drug and gang establishment that is flourishing and getting richer. Dirty money really flowing in her home State; sounds like they could use her help; has she jumped ship? Why would I vote for someone who doesn’t care about her State and its security. She needs to go back home where she belongs. She took an oath to do her job as the leader of her state, Alaska. It looks like she couldn’t handle the job and jumped ship. Talk is easy but the walk is hard. As far as I am concerned, she has abandoned her people.
Sarah Palin needs to take care of her own backyard, the one in Anchorage, Alaska. I saw a documentary about Anchorage on the illegal drug and gang establishment that is flourishing and getting richer. Dirty money really flowing in her home State; sounds like they could use her help; has she jumped ship? Why would I vote for someone who doesn’t care about her State and its security. She needs to go back home where she belongs. She took an oath to do her job as the leader of her state, Alaska. It looks like she couldn’t handle the job and jumped ship. Talk is easy but the walk is hard. As far as I am concerned, she has abandoned her people.
Palin needs to stop showing her ignorance. I think she is full of it!
palin should have stayed the course and completed her term. she did have personal problems but they did not stop her from showing up on snl, yuck. if i was running for pres.and the world problems was like the way they were i would not have time for comedy shows and tea parties i dont care who told me to do it. where do they get these people.
You misguided fools, it about time you stop beleiving in the media and that joke of an president that you elected (not me). This economy has not changed for the better. He promised an change but what we got was the same democatic party. Palin is the total package, she has the knowledge to get this country back on it’s feet. I quess after you lose your job, house and your dignity. Then you will wake up and see that you were lied to !!!
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